Suspender attachment.



J. HAUSER.

SUSPENDER ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3, 1907.

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JOSEPH HAUSER, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

SUSPENDER ATTACHIMIENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application filed July 3, 1907. Serial No. 382,058.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr HAUsnR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of lVashington, have invented new and useful Improvements in Suspender Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to novel attachments for suspenders, which afford means for reliably securing together the ends of the looped portions of suspender bands, in a manner which will permit the release of said parts when a changed adjustment is desired, whereby the suspender bands are lengthened or shortened as occasion may require.

Furthermore, the invention embodies means for holding the ends of the suspender bands and suspender tabs in secured engagement with proper buttons on the waist band of trousers, and enabling an instant release of the tabs when this is desired.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the ap pended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of suspenders constructed as usual, and a front view of the improved clamping attachment thereon; Fig. 2 is an enlarged, front view of the tab end of a suspender band, a trousers waist band in part, and a feature of the invention 011 the tab end, detachably securing said tab end upon a button 011 the waist band; Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing a clasp attachment for the tab ends of suspenders, mainly at the front thereof; Fig. 4; is a vertical transverse, sectional view of details, substantially on the line 5 5 in Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the rear of the tab and clasp, that is shown at the front in Fig. at.

In the drawings, 10 represents a pair of suspender bands crossed and secured together near their rear ends and doubled at the front ends, the bights of said doubled portions 10 loosely engaging the transverse upper slots in coupling plates a, the twin slots in the latter receiving the bights of a pair of integral tabs 11, as usual.

The novel clasps with which the ends of the tabs 11 are provided, each comprise the following details. A body portion for the tab end clasp is formed of plate metal, that when fiat is rectangular and oblong. This plate is bent at (Z, that is the longitudinal center thereof, so as to produce two similar members for the body, these members 12, 12*, being spaced apart parallel with each other. The body having the spaced members 12, 12, is loosely secured on the pendent end of a tab 11 by means of an oblong ring 6, that is placed on the clasp body engaging the bight thereof, and fastened upon the extremity of the tab by lap folding the latter and se curing the lapped portion on the pendent tab after it has been passed through the oblong ring, as shown for one clasp and tab end in Fig. 4E. The normally front side of the body piece designated by the character 12, is slotted at the transverse center from the lower edge toward the bend (Z, the slot d being of a width that will permit the free insertion of the neck of a trousers button A into this slot cl when the device is to be used. A safety latch plate 13 is an essential detail, and as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3, consists of a metal plate, flat in the body and having a bent latch finger g at one side edge thereof, this latch finger being designed to hook upon one side edge of the slotted member 12. At the corner of the latch plate 13 which is opposite from the latch finger 9, said latch plate is pivoted upon the member 12 as at 2', and as shown the lower corner It on the opposite side edge of said member 12, is rounded somewhat. At the upper termination of the rounded edge It a slight bump it is formed, whereon the hook-like latch finger Q will rest when the latch plate is rocked into the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3, there being suflicient resilience in the slotted member 12 to permit the passage of the finger 9' over the hump h. The upper edge of the latch plate 13 is concaved, as appears in Fig. 3, at a point opposite the slot d, this concaved portion of said edge engaging the neck of a button when the plate is in latched position. The other spaced member 12 of the looped body for the trousers holding clamp is slotted transversely, as is shown in Figs. 4 and 5, said slot 70 being disposed about opposite the pivot 2' and hooked finger g.

A locking plate or lever 14 is employed as a completing detail of the tab end clasp which has been described. This lever is formed of a fiat, metallic plate having a lateral flange m formed on the normally upper edge thereof, said flange working in the slot is that it is positioned opposite,'by pivoting the lever at its side edges close to the flange and at each side edge of the lever, as indicated at a in Fig. 5.

The clasps carried by ends of the tabs are preferably attached upon the rear ends of the suspender bands 10 or tabs 11 thereon, for engagement with the edge portion of the waist band B of a pair of trousers at the buttons usually placed on the waistband for engagement with said rear ends or tabs of the suspenders.

In applying the improved clasps that are mounted upon the tabs or rear ends 11 of the suspender bands, the latch plates are turned down away from the slots in the outer members 12 of the clasp bodies, as indicated in dotted lines in F 2. The buttons A, which ordinarily are connected with the suspender bands at their rear ends, are now introduced into the slots in the body member 12, which will dispose the material of the trousers waist-band B at the buttons A between the clasp body members 12 and 12 Now, by swinging the latch plate 13 that is on each member 12, around so as to hook its finger 9 over the hump h and then foldably adjusting the locking levers l t, the flanges m on said levers will be embedded in the material of the trousers waist-band, and firmly but detachably secure the rear ends of the suspenders upon the trousers.

As the clasps that are secured upon the pendent end portions of the tabs 11 are similar in every respect to those on the suspender rear ends or tabs 11 the connection of said clasps with the waist band at the front buttons on the trousers will obviously be the same as already described, and need not be repeated.

It is to be understood that the improved clasps may be employed for connecting the body of a womans dress with the skirt if this is desired, or a body for a boys upper garment may be detachably secured upon the nether garment, if this is preferred to the use of buttons for such a purpose.

Having thus described my invention, 1

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A clasp for suspender ends, comprising a plate having a slot leading out through one edge of the plate and adapted to receive the neck of a button, a latch mounted on the plate and adapted to extend across the slot of the plate, and a locking lever carried by the plate and adapted to engage the material carrying the button opposite the said button.

2. A clasp for suspender ends, comprising a U-shaped plate having in its front member a vertical slot leading out through its lower edge, a latch pivoted to the plate at one side of the slot and having locking engagement with the plate at the other side of the slot, and a locking lever carried by the rear member of the plate and adapted to engage the material carrying the button opposite said button.

3. A clasp for suspender ends, comprising a plate having a vertical slot leading out through the lower end thereof and provided with a projection on one side edge, and a latch pivoted to the plate at one side of the slot and provided with afinger at its free end for engaging the edge of the plate hav ing the projection.

l. A clasp for suspender ends, comprising an inverted U-shaped plate having a vertical slot on one member, said slot leading out through the lower end of said member, and a latch pivoted to the member of the plate having the vertical slot and provided at its free end with a hook extending around and in locking engagement with one edge of the said member.

5. A clasp for suspender ends, comprising an inverted U-shaped plate having its members slotted, the slot of the front member being vertical and leading out through the lower end of the member, a latch pivoted to the front member and having locking engagement with the member at the other side of the slot, and a locking lever pivoted to the rear member and having a projection extending into the slot thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH HAUSER.

Vitnesses H. L. THOMPSON, C. L. SWoRMs'rEDr. 

